Full title: The defence of Constantine: with a treatise of the Popes
temporall monarchie. Wherein, besides divers passages, touching other Counsels,
both Generall and Provinciall, the second Roman Synod, under Silvester, is
declared to be a meere fiction and forgery. By Richard Crakanthorp, Doctor of
Divinity.
4to. pp. [2] (blank), [16], 380; 283, [1], [4] (blank).
Signatures: A⁴ a⁴ B-3B⁴ 3C², A-2M⁴ 2N². Contemporary limp vellum. Remnants of
ties. Arbury Library booklabel. Library label on p. [2] of cover. 1st blank
loose. Ms. no. "48" on title page. "Of the Popes temporall
monarchy, and what important consequents doe ensue thereof" (caption
title) has separate pagination and register. Three leaves in the treatise on the
Pope’s temporal monarchy are present in both cancelled and uncancelled states
(Aa1, Cc1, and Cc8).
Attack against the claims in the Donatio Constantini by the
English Calvinist logician Richard Crakanthorpe (1621) taken up in defense of a
national Protestant Church of England unsullied by medieval papal claims. See
W. A. Jackson, F. S. Ferguson, & Katharine F. Pantzer, Short-title
Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, & Ireland, and of English
Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. 2nd ed., London, 1976–91, 5974; E. Havens,
“Babelic Confusion. Literary Forgery and the Bibliotheca Fictiva,” in W.
Stephens & E. Havens (eds.), Literary forgery in early modern Europe,
1450-1800, Baltimore, 2018, p. 45, 69 n 17.
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